ClearSpeed Accelerates New Breed of IBM System Cluster 1350 Hybrid Supercomputers.Acceleration technology delivers exceptional performance while addressing both the economic and ecological issues of energy consumption BRISTOL, England -- ClearSpeed Technology (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSD), the leader in floating point coprocessor acceleration technology for high performance and technical computing (HPTC HPTC High Performance Technical Computing HPTC Historic Preservation Training Center(US National Park Service) ), today announced that IBM has included ClearSpeed Advance[TM] accelerator boards in the System Cluster 1350. Hybrid clusters combine complementary technologies in the optimum configuration to balance performance, quality of results and resource utilization. With the ability to deliver over 30 gigaflops (GIGA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One billion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS. (unit) gigaflops - (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point operations per second. LINPACK per board and scaling to multi-teraflop systems, ClearSpeed Advance acceleration focuses on the most compute- and energy-intensive functions, delivering up to four times the performance per watt of today's best industry standard processors. "ClearSpeed is collaborating with IBM to take the lead in delivering fully-productized hybrid clusters to market," said Tom Beese, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for ClearSpeed. "At the same time that high performance computing helps us to better understand the true economic and ecological effects of energy consumption on the planet, it can also be contributing to the problem. ClearSpeed accelerated System Cluster 1350 solutions are changing the rules by setting new standards for performance, reduced operational costs and ecological responsibility." Delivering IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. standard compliant accuracy for double precision calculations and increasing LINPACK performance by over a gigaflop-per watt, ClearSpeed Advance accelerators are unmatched in their precision and power efficiency by any alternative technology. Two ClearSpeed Advance[TM] boards in a single dual socket Dual-Core Intel[R] Xeon[R] processor-based server equipped with two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel[R] Xeon[R] 5160 processors delivered 102.6 GFLOPS See gigaFLOPS. GFLOPS - gigaflops on the LINPACK benchmark. This compares with an already impressive 38 GFLOPS delivered by the base system, while consuming only 50 watts of additional power. Performance results for the world's most powerful commercially available computer systems published on October 3, 2006 by Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. demonstrated that ClearSpeed acceleration technology scales efficiently from single servers to hundreds of nodes. Using ClearSpeed Advance accelerators, the Tokyo Institute of Technology's TSUBAME supercomputer achieved a performance of 47.38 Teraflops (TFLOPS See teraFLOPS. , trillion floating point operations per second Noun 1. trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system teraflop computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable ) on the LINPACK benchmark. This is an increase of over 9 TFLOPS from the non-accelerated result of 38.18 TFLOPS published in June 2006, delivering an unprecedented performance boost of 24 percent. From an efficiency perspective, the ClearSpeed Advance boards delivered 1 TFLOP TFLOP Tera Floating Point Operations Per Second per kilowatt adding only one percent to the cluster's overall power consumption. "IBM is uniquely positioned to deliver leading edge technologies to our customers while providing the assurance of a factory built, tested and fully supported product that meets the standards required by our clients," said Wendy McGee, director, IBM Cluster Solutions. "Working with companies like ClearSpeed Technology we can deliver hybrid architectures that are individually tailored to our clients' needs with the convenience and dependability expected from off-the-shelf solutions." About ClearSpeed ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on delivering double precision high performance coprocessors and boards to be used alongside general purpose processors in the world's most compute-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's advanced multithreaded array processing technology provides the ability to significantly accelerate data-intensive applications at extremely low power. Products include chips, boards, software tools, applications and support. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. and Bristol, UK and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more information on ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com. About IBM For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com. About the LINPACK Benchmark and the Top500 A detailed description of the LINPACK benchmark, as well as a list of performance results on a wide variety of machines is available at: http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf. |
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